Reporting to the Director, Technical Portfolio Management, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of transformation initiatives including our Unified Content (UC) Platform, legacy system transitions, in-year revenue commitments, and ongoing simplification work. You will work at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution, partnering with Domain Leads, Product Directors, Engineering Heads, and senior business stakeholders.
This role requires someone who can operate with significant autonomy, exercise independent judgement on matters of strategic importance, and influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
Scope & Level
Scope: You own and deliver programmes/initiatives to achieve organisation-level goals and key results across multiple domains within your Focus Area.
Complexity: Addresses problems and solutions spanning multiple teams and domains, building consensus at intra-department level.
Discretion: Uses independent judgement and unique knowledge to contribute to and influence department-level goals and objectives.
Interaction: Works primarily with senior leadership, Domain Leads, and cross-functional executives.
Supervision: Acts independently to determine best practices and procedures. May supervise or mentor other programme managers.
What You'll Be Doing
Strategic Programme Leadership
Own the integrated roadmap across 2-4 domains within your Focus Area, ensuring alignment with business strategy and UC Platform delivery
Balance and prioritise competing demands: UC Platform go-live, legacy system transitions, in-year revenue commitments, tech debt reduction, and simplification initiatives
Develop and maintain visibility across all transformation workstreams, providing clear line-of-sight from strategy to execution
Build business cases for major initiatives, securing capital funding and resource allocation in partnership with senior leadership
Identify and manage dependencies across domains, proactively resolving conflicts and removing blockers
Drive quarterly planning and alignment across your Focus Area, ensuring domain roadmaps are coherent and achievable
Transformation & Transition Management
Lead the transition from legacy/existing systems to the Unified Content Platform within your Focus Area
Manage the complexity of running parallel systems during transition periods while maintaining operational stability
Ensure in-year revenue targets are protected during transformation activities
Drive simplification initiatives that reduce technical complexity and operational overhead
Coordinate cutover planning, data migration, and go-live activities across multiple domains
Cross-Domain Orchestration
Serve as the primary integration point across domains within your Focus Area, ensuring coherent delivery
Facilitate cross-domain dependency management, working with peer Senior TPMs in other Focus Areas
Lead governance forums and steering committees at the Focus Area level
Manage escalations and drive resolution of issues that span multiple domains
Ensure consistent delivery practices and standards across your Focus Area
Senior Stakeholder Management
Partner with Domain Leads, Product Directors, and Engineering Heads to align on priorities and delivery approach
Provide regular updates to senior leadership on programme health, risks, and strategic decisions required
Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders, translating technical complexity into business impact
Represent the Focus Area in portfolio-level discussions and planning sessions
Influence and negotiate across organizational boundaries to achieve programme outcomes
Team Leadership & Capability Building
Mentor and coach TPMs and Project Managers working within your Focus Area
Build programme management capability and maturity across the domains you support
Champion best practices in delivery methodology, tooling, and governance
Contribute to the strategic direction of the PMO function
Essential
10+ years of experience in technical programme management, with at least 4 years leading programmes spanning multiple teams or departments
Proven track record of delivering complex transformation programmes involving system transitions, platform migrations, or large-scale technology change
Experience balancing multiple competing priorities (e.g., new platform delivery vs. keeping existing systems running vs. revenue protection)
Strong commercial awareness with experience managing programmes with significant revenue or cost implications
Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy, exercising independent judgement on matters of strategic importance
Excellence in senior stakeholder management, with experience influencing at Director/VP level
Experience in software development environments with strong understanding of agile, lean, and hybrid delivery methodologies
Outstanding communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for business audiences and vice versa
Desirable
Experience in publishing, media, or content platforms
Background in domain-driven design or capability-based operating models
Experience with large-scale platform consolidation or legacy system decommissioning
Formal programme management qualification (MSP, PgMP, or equivalent)
Experience leading programmes in a matrix organization with distributed teams
What Success Looks Like
UC Platform capabilities within your Focus Area are delivered on time and adopted successfully
Legacy systems are transitioned smoothly with minimal business disruption
In-year revenue targets are achieved while transformation progresses
Dependencies across domains are proactively managed with no surprise escalations
Stakeholders have clear visibility of programme status and confidence in delivery
Domain teams operate with consistent, mature delivery practices
You are recognized as a trusted partner by Domain Leads and senior leadership
You must have the right to work and live in India.
Location: The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our Bengaluru office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office location to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time.
We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at conference – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.
What we offer in return
A competitive salary + bonus
24 days annual leave
4 volunteering days annually
Day off for your birthday
Pension contributions
Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self
Seasonal social and charitable events
Training and development
Tools and equipment for remote working
We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact recruitment@tandf.co.uk
Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis
If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.
Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.
If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact recruitment@tandf.co.uk. Your request will be reviewed and considered in the strictest confidence.
We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers
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